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40 years ago today, Lindsey Buckingham released Go Insane. Sophomore psychosis. Read our classic Q&A with him: The post Lindsey Buckingham Released “Go Insane” 40 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Chet Hanks hasn’t always had the best public image. It’s been three years since Tom Hanks’ rapper son released his song “White Boy Summer” and the ensuing chaos, and now, he’s doing some damage control.  » Read More

It’s been almost four years since Anna McClellan’s last album, her 2020 Father Daughter debut I saw first light. Since then, she’s shared a rarities compilation and a Lucinda Williams cover she did with Lomelda and More Eaze. Having recently relocated from Omaha to Los Angeles,  » Read More

Wilco’s eighth Solid Sound took over MASS MoCA in North Adams over the weekend, and you can read our recap of the festival here. We saw performances by acts like Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Water From Your Eyes, Soul Glo, Iris DeMent, Ratboys, and about a dozen permutations of Wilco if you factor in the band members’  » Read More

A few weeks ago, Lana Del Rey and her buddy Quavo teased a new song they’d recorded together called “Tough.” Not long after, the former Migos member crashed Del Rey’s rainy Fenway concert to debut the song live. Today, “Tough” is officially out in the world.  » Read More

Consider this: The new En Love promo tape ends with a song called “Starving Blade,” and it is 18 seconds long. En Love, from Columbus, make a freaked-out, reactive form of hardcore punk that defies subgenre categories. Even when they lock into a midtempo stomp-groove, something that they do very well, they sound unhinged an animalistic,  » Read More

Later this summer, Buffalo psych-rock legends Mercury Rev will return with Born Horses, their first new album of original material in nine years. (They released a Bobbie Gentry tribute LP in 2019, but even that was a while ago now.) We’ve already posted first single “Patterns,”  » Read More

New Orleans rapper BG, one of the stars of Cash Money Records’ huge run in the late ’90s and early ’00s, has been ordered to submit all future music to the federal government before any of it is produced or promoted. It’s a condition of his parole, and it’s actually a significant step down from the restrictions that prosecutors wanted to impose on him.  » Read More

Is “Wilco (The Song)” off of Wilco: The Album a deep cut? Who cares — it was a perfect way for the band to end a fan-friendly Friday night set at Solid Sound 2024, because even when you’re playing nothing but (relative) obscurities and rarities, you still gotta finish with a statement.  » Read More